Lord of the Mysteries

Lord of the Mysteries is a long fantasy novel by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving, a platinum author of Yuewen Group. It began serialization on Qidian Chinese Network on April 1, 2018, and concluded in May 2020. The book comprises eight volumes and 1,418 chapters, totaling approximately 4.4652 million characters. The story opens with the line "In the tide of steam and machinery, who can touch the extraordinary?" Zhou Mingrui, a modern young man, wakes up to find himself Klein Moretti, a history graduate of Hoy University in the Kingdom of Loen, living in poverty with an older brother and a younger sister and caught up in a crisis of life and death. To protect himself, he performs a mysterious ritual to reach "above the gray fog," accidentally ignites a crimson star, establishes the Tarot Club under the name "The Fool," joins the Tingen City Nighthawks squad, and takes the "Seer" potion, formally setting foot on the path of the extraordinary. The world's power system consists of twenty-two Divine Pathways and nine Great Sources; Beyonders must consume corresponding potions to gain power and then gradually digest them through the "Acting Method" to avoid losing control. Klein assumes identities including Sherlock Moriarty and Gehrman Sparrow, moving between Tingen, Backlund, and the sea, investigating cults and Sealed Artifacts while inching closer to the truth behind the gods and the title "Lord of the Mysteries." Blending the indescribable horror of Cthulhu Mythos, the social texture of the Victorian era, and steampunk industrial imagination, the work offers both eerie puzzles and meditations on fate, sacrifice, and human nature. It is regarded as one of the crowning works of Chinese web literature and was added to the British Library collection in 2024.